The All-Star Game and Home Run Derby cards are numbered differently, but they are really the same set.

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How can a bona fide 2008 box of cards sell for under $20? I don’t know. This set must have been a total flop. Since the price is already down to $20, it will probably keep trending down for a while. The fact that Upper Deck is out of the MLB card business for the near future doesn’t help.

I love the idea of this set – a card for every game. The number of cards (4,890) is a bit unwieldy. I mean that is ridiculous. They could have cut that number in half if they truly made it a card for every game. As it stands, each team has a card for each of its games. Instead, they should have devoted the card to the winning team. Better teams have more cards. Crappy teams get fewer.

One gripe about this set is that the cards do not have in-game pictures for the date on the card. That’s pretty bad, but it would be hell to get nearly 5,000 game-appropriate card photos. Regardless of the fact that this set was a flop, I’m looking forward to breaking this box.

I don’t have enough of the cards to know how much variety they put into the set. Although I mostly think the idea of the set is great, you can’t make up for bad execution. The collecting public seems to think this is a bad product (based on the box price alone).